Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daisy-&-Violet Hilton are a pygopagus, a double-monster joined at the buttocks. They say that the bones of their lower spines and hips are fused and that the same blood courses through both bodies. Invoking shyness, they refuse medical or x-ray examination. Presumably if Violet were to bleed to death, Daisy would also be fatally drained of blood. But, strangely, three weeks ago Violet had a bad cold and fever. Yet Daisy ran no fever...
...didn't say 'part with my honor.' " mused Vivian MacMillan. "He said it would be doing the honorable thing." Since Mrs. Brownlee appeared to like having the ray of sunshine for a house guest, Miss MacMillan was able to do the honorable thing under the Premier's own roof. She testified that he turned on water in the bathtub to cover the noise, tiptoed into her room and led her back to his, tiptoeing in step with him "so that the footsteps would sound like one person." He also gave her, she said, large black pills...
Dean Milton Charles Winternitz of Yale's Medical School was as happy as any preceptor could be last week. One of his proteges, Luther George Simjian, had just announced perfection of a device which: 1) produces colored x-ray images of internal organs, 2) visualizes highly transparent organs, 3) utilizes harmless, weak x-ray beams. 4) allows the colored images to "be sent by wire to any place the examining doctor...
Inventor Simjian conceived the apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
When the device is in operation the patient stands so that the x-rays throw shadows of his bones and viscera upon a fluoroscopic screen. A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells. One cell responds only to heavy shadows, another to light shadows, the third to medium greys. In turn one cell activates a red neon tube, another a yellow helium tube, the third a blue mercury tube. Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image...